Stercorarius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Stercorariidae
- Genus
- Stercorarius
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Stercorarius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stercorarius
The skuas () are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus Stercorarius, the only genus in the family Stercorariidae. The three smaller skuas, the Arctic skua, the long-tailed skua, and the pomarine skua, are called jaegers in North American English.
The English word "skua" comes from the Faroese name for the great skua, skúgvur [ˈskɪkvʊɹ], with the island of Skúvoy renowned for its colony of that bird. The general Faroese term for skuas is kjógvi [ˈtʃɛkvɪ]. The word "jaeger" or Jäger is German for "hunter". The genus name Stercorarius is Latin and means "of dung"; the food disgorged by other birds when pursued by skuas was once thought to be excrement.
Skuas nest on the ground in temperate, Antarctic, and Arctic regions, and are long-distance migrants. They have even been sighted at the South Pole.
...Stercorarius in languages:
- Bokmål
- Joer
- English
- Jaegers
- English
- Skuas
- English
- Bonxies
- English
- Skuas and Jaegers
- French
- Labbes
- German
- Raubmöwen
- Hungarian
- halfarkasok
- Japanese
- トウゾクカモメ属
- Portuguese
- Mandriões
- Russian
- Поморники
- Swedish
- labbar
- Thai
- สกุล นกสกัว
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